Apocalypse (death knight ability)

Apocalypse
	Apocalypse; Row 5 Unholy death knight talent; Replaces [Dark Transformation]; Melee range; 45 seconds cooldown; Instant; Bring doom upon the enemy, dealing (50% of Attack power) Shadow damage and bursting up to 4 Festering Wounds on the target.; ; Summons 4 Army of the Dead ghouls for 20 sec.; ; Generates 2 Runes.;
Properties
Class	Death knight
School	Shadow
Cooldown	45 seconds
Talents
Talent required	[Improved Festering Strike] or [Plague Mastery]/ [Grave Mastery]
Other information
Improvements	[Magus of the Dead], [Necromancer's Bargain]

For other uses, see Apocalypse (disambiguation).

Apocalypse is an Unholy death knight ability.

Notes

This ability is a direct recreation of the [Apocalypse] artifact ability from Legion.

Patch 11.2.0 (2025-08-05): Now replaces [Dark Transformation] if it is known and also summons your pet ghoul on cast.
Patch 11.1.0 (2025-02-25):
- Ghoul damage increased by 25%.
- Now summons ghouls instantly and visuals have been updated.
Patch 11.0.7 (2024-12-17): Ghoul damage increased by 30%.
Patch 11.0.0 (2024-07-23):
- Cooldown reduced to 45 seconds (was 90 seconds).
- Now always summons 4 ghouls regardless of Wounds burst.
- Ghoul damage reduced by 15%.
Hotfix (2023-11-14): Ghoul damage increased by 5%.
Patch 10.2.0 (2023-11-07):
- Ghouls summoned by Apocalypse now have their own scaling from the Death Knight's stats separate from Army of the Dead.
- Apocalypse Ghoul damage increased by 12%.
Patch 10.1.5 (2023-07-11): Now summons up to 2 Army of the Dead ghouls instead of 4 in PvP combat.
Hotfix (2022-12-19): Ghoul duration increased to 20s, up from 15s.
Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 5 Unholy talent (was a level 19 Unholy ability). Rank 2 removed and Rank 3 made baseline.
Patch 9.0.2 (2020-11-17): Rank 3 added at level 58: Apocalypse generates 2 Runes.
Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Level reduced from 75 to 19. Rank 2 added at level 40, reducing the cooldown and increasing the damage.
Patch 8.0.1 (2018-07-17): Added.

Apocalypse
Apocalypse Row 5 Unholy death knight talent Replaces [Dark Transformation] Melee range 45 seconds cooldown Instant Bring doom upon the enemy, dealing (50% of Attack power) Shadow damage and bursting up to 4 Festering Wounds on the target. Summons 4 Army of the Dead ghouls for 20 sec. Generates 2 Runes.
Properties
Class	Death knight
School	Shadow
Cooldown	45 seconds
Talents
Talent required	[Improved Festering Strike] or [Plague Mastery]/ [Grave Mastery]
Other information
Improvements	[Magus of the Dead], [Necromancer's Bargain]